{"id":98120,"date":"2012-10-16T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/98120\/wonder-w\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T01:00:23","slug":"wonder-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/98120\/wonder-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Wednesday Remembering Fine Poets ~Who Is Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLangston Hughes
\nJames Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri.<\/font><\/p>\n

His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. <\/font><\/p>\n

He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, <\/font><\/p>\n

when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband, <\/font><\/p>\n

before the family eventually settled in Cleveland, Ohio.
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\nIt was in Lincoln, Illinois, that Hughes began writing poetry
\nIn November 1924, he moved to Washington, D.C. Hughes’s first book of poetry, <\/font><\/p>\n

The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926.<\/font><\/p>\n

He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later.<\/font><\/p>\n

In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature.
\nLangston Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967, in New York. In his memory, his residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York City, has been given landmark status by the New York City Preservation Commission, and East 127th Street has been renamed “Langston Hughes Place.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nHuges mother was a school teacher, she also wrote poetry<\/font><\/p>\n


\nHuges left us a large body of poetic work,
\nAsk Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961)
\nCollected Poems of Langston Hughes (1994)
\nDear Lovely Death (1931)
\nFields of Wonder (1947)
\nFine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
\nFreedom’s Plow (1943)
\nMontage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
\nOne-Way Ticket (1949)
\nScottsboro Limited (1932)
\nSelected Poems (1959)
\nShakespeare in Harlem (1942)
\nThe Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932)
\nThe Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (1967)
\nThe Weary Blues (1926)<\/font><\/p>\n


\nTonight we ask you to write about a poet you remember<\/font><\/p>\n

A poet that inspired you , your writing <\/font><\/p>\n

or one you enjoy \u00a0reading today<\/font><\/p>\n

Maybe Langston Hughes was one that inspired you , your poetry<\/font><\/p>\n

Here is a list \u00a0and the list goes on as popular \u00a0poets<\/font><\/p>\n

For poetry is popular and educational in many ways<\/font><\/p>\n

Langston Hughes<\/p>\n

Shel Silverstein<\/p>\n

Pablo Neruda<\/p>\n

Maya Angelou<\/p>\n

Edgar Allan Poe<\/p>\n

Robert Frost<\/p>\n

Emily Dickinson<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/p>\n

E. E. Cummings<\/p>\n

Walt Whitman<\/p>\n

William Wordsworth<\/p>\n

Allen Ginsberg<\/p>\n

Sylvia Plath<\/p>\n

Jack Prelutsky<\/p>\n

William Butler Yeats<\/p>\n

Thomas Hardy<\/p>\n

Robert Hayden<\/p>\n

Amy Lowell<\/p>\n

Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n

Theodore Roethke<\/p>\n


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Just enjoy having fun and being creative<\/font><\/p>\n


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